> (The main implication being that just signing all your outgoing email
> may not allow you to advertise "dkim=all", if you e.g. use the "i="
> tag to identify a mailing list manager -- the only example of its use
> given in RFC 4871.)

Ah, good point.  That's straightforward to fix.

I suppose the alternative, now that we have some experience with i= in 
real life, is to adjust the language in ADSP to match the experience. 
Dunno how the other authors feel about that.

>>> 2) Protecting subdomains
> Something like this, perhaps? (added after 2nd para in Section 3.1)
>
>   Note: If an organization wants to publish Author Domain Signing
>   Practices for all its subdomains, too, it needs to create ADSP
>   records for every _adsp._domainkey_.<subdomain>.domain.example.
>   Note that wildcards cannot be used (see Section 6.3); however,
>   creating the ADSP records could be automated with suitable DNS
>   management tools.

OK.

>>> 4) Minor clarifications/nits
>
> I think clearly explaining when an organization that signs all
> its outgoing email can actually publish a "dkim=all" policy is pretty
> important --  although ADSP doesn't (and shouldn't) do everything,
> we need to be clear about what it does.

It's when the signature matches the From: address.  Shouldn't be too hard 
to say it again.

Regards,
John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
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